"Beautiful phones are coming" says Nokia CEO Elop

In an interview on Finnish television, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, in response to a question about the Nokia Lumia 928, said that, "there is so much good work ahead. I mean some of the beautiful phones still ahead we’re so excited about." Elop pointed out how Nokia smartphones are well known for their beautiful designs and the photography produced by the camera on Nokia phones. The executive said that future models will exaggerate both of those features and take them to higher and higher levels.

In what is good news for the Finnish handset manufacturer, Elop said Nokia will sell more phones on a sequential basis in the first quarter compared to the fourth quarter of last year. "Now we’re starting with a brand new set of products, we’re starting with low numbers but I like that Q4 was more than Q3 and I want to keep growing that and taking that to a higher and higher amount," said the CEO.

The interview did have a funny moment when the interviewer kept pressing Elop on the Nokia Lumia 928 and the CEO had to dodge the question since the phone has yet to be announced.

"Well the reason we believe that is we believe we can effectively compete with those other products by emphasizing the consumer experiences, the capabilities of these devices that are better than anything else. So with the 920 when we introduced that and said, ‘boy you can take pictures in a dark room, you can see and use the bright display under the bright Finnish sunlight that we’ve been enjoying over the past few days, I can control the screen with my glove on, and on and on and on’ if we focus on that great innovation, that Nokia is so good at and if we get that into our products then we will improve it."-Stephen Elop, CEO, Nokia

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Come on brushed aluminum design. I don't mind weight, I like my phones to have a little heft. I don't like the light weight ones. Makes me feel I'm going to break it. (I know it won't but I still don't like the feel)

Its impossible to be nobody if you exist,as you therefore exist. Funny enough phantoms are not meant to exist in the physical sense so maybe people called urban phantom equally don't exist and are a nobody

this shows through all there crap android fans arent happy with the current offering and are whining for more. im sure android fanboys are so unhappy. there never satisfied with what they have always saying wait for the next one i.e. when the s4 came out and wasnt all it could be they quickly said wait for the note 3

You are a complete idiot for saying that. You see, we Android fans have never been happier or more excited to see a new Android flagship to come into the market. Why? Because of competition. I don't include blackberry or Apple in it because they have no competition with Android (overall). Android has overtook them long time ago. But the thing is where you are stuck with a the same sh!tty OS from 7 years, Android has gone a far way. Today, we have the best smartphones available thanks to Samsung, Sony, LG and HTC. But with new awesome devices coming every few months, it's hard to decide which device to buy and keep. That's how awesome market is right now. I don't have to wait a freaking year for a new WP to come out or an apple device to come out or a blackberry to come out (because even when they do they are crap).

And the truth is WE LOVE NOKIA. Nokia makes awesome handsets. Too bad that they are stuck with MS to make stupid windows phones. Which is why if there was a Nokia Android right now, we'd know who can beat Samsung and who has the ability to really make the best Android handset.

Android obviously cares. iPhone customers generally aren't going anywhere. If anyone is going to lose market to WP or Blackberry, it will be Android devices. This IMO is why Samsung has gotten not only cold feet, but now seems Hell-bent on dissing a platform they previously whole-heartedly embraced. It may not be huge in the short-term, but by a thousand small chips and divots, there will be an equalizing of the playing field. With Apple poised to drop a low-end device soon, and Windows 8 convertibles and tablets slowly climbing into the market, there will be a reckoning coming.

I just think they (their 2012 models) have huge bezels, the top and bottom are nearly as big as the iPhones' and the side bezel are probably about the biggest around.
But the two new Lumias released this have much smaller bezel and are even better looking.

Keep up the good work Mr. Elop. I realize your strategy and believe it makes sense- penetrate the the low to midrange market to increase awareness and market share.
Then save the big guns for the brainwashed filled markets like the US and Europe.

I used to like Nokia handsets back in the Symbian days, but I'm not willing to put up with their current software platform.
Their phones are amazing, design and spec-wise, but I need more than just colored squares.

agree meego would've been a nice choice but nokia will be lost or in deep battle in the adroid market,the more choices and elegan os's to choose from the better.every company can't stick to android.
variety is alwayas key to longevity.
maybe they could go with wp & android.jst saying

You find the vast majority of people agree with you, most customers I see are instantly turned off by live tikes grid square ui. Only the niche Nokia or windows fans like it but unfortunately for Nokia that's a very small niche of people

Waiting for the aluminum phone as well. Time to move on from HTC as they have no plan to initiate a new "flagship" phone after the paltry effort with the 8X. May be a nice phone, but no phone should come out with less than 32GB or SD memory expansion; Qi charging; etc. There is no logical reason for me to move from my Titan to the 8X, and so far, I am not impressed with the camera on the OneX. Seems a step back.

So I am ready for the Nokia. More robust eco system, better apps, innovation with each step and I feel they have nearly completed their low and middle tier devices. Ready for the next high-end phone

Literally he is true , Nokia just got everything like good camera , build, design and Good Nokia Apps like Nokia Here , but the only wrong thing that they do is using Windows phone 8 >.< , windows phone 8 have a Beautiful UI but they dont have many APPS.

I agree, apps in the Windows ecosystem are the biggest "problem", but there is too much of the same right now, Android after android after android! Yes, It would be interesting if they made an Android phone, but why bother?! Samsung is killing the android competition... Nokia would of been less successful with android and fighting against Samsung instead of using Windows with weaker competition. Nokia are taking the risk and innovation instead of being safe and using Android like 90% of all other phone makers. We need change in the smartphone market, and Nokia is leading the way.

i reckon nokia would kill samsung in one year if they joined samsung and they can make a UI similar to their Symbian UI on android but that would be boring nokia is the only thing carrying WP ATM it's why wp is still around i like a bit of choice to have a stretchy market with different choice i wanna buy a wp this year an android next year and one of dem new oses coming out the year after not same thing thing what nokia are doing is making a flexible market

so you think the average customer knows samsung for there CPU and GPU. bigger bs has never been said. the average customer sees the galaxy line like the iphone and ipad. shiny phones they have to have as everyones getting them.

they no nothing on the cpu etc baby troll

''Consumers tend to go with specs and innovation''

nope customers go for what makes them happy or what everyones getting. if it was for innovation samsung would be screwed

Beautiful phones are coming? lol, the Lumia 800, 900 and 920 all look the same, if I didn't find it beautiful before, I probably won't if they keep up the same design...Even if they changed the design, you still can't change that hideous WP interface...

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